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Best War Movies of the 2020s

War films released 2020–2029, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 42 titlesavg ★ 7.11 avg 117 min War Drama Action History

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#1 There's Still Tomorrow (2023) · ★ 8.1 · 1,557 votes · 1h 58m · comedy, drama, history
In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter a…
#2 One Life (2023) · ★ 7.8 · 999 votes · 1h 49m · drama, history, war
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation…
#3 The Shadow in My Eye (2021) · ★ 7.8 · 572 votes · 1h 47m · drama, history, war
On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidenta…
#4 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 4,959 votes · 2h 27m · action, drama, war
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys ent…
#5 Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) · ★ 7.7 · 3,384 votes · 2h 3m · action, thriller, war
After an ambush, Afghan interpreter Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save US Army Sergeant John Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe pa…
#6 Emancipation (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 1,308 votes · 2h 12m · drama, history, war
Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, h…
#7 Sniper: The White Raven (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 949 votes · 2h 0m · action, drama, war
Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins in Donbas, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and bu…
#8 The Woman King (2022) · ★ 7.6 · 2,429 votes · 2h 15m · action, drama, history
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever s…
#9 Nuremberg (2025) · ★ 7.6 · 1,437 votes · 2h 29m · thriller, drama, history
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and eth…
#10 The Six Triple Eight (2024) · ★ 7.6 · 728 votes · 2h 10m · drama, history, war
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't…
#11 Persian Lessons (2020) · ★ 7.6 · 517 votes · 2h 7m · drama, war
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he i…
#12 The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) · ★ 7.5 · 949 votes · 2h 7m · comedy, drama, war
Chickie wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as a well-meaning journey quickly changes Chick…
#13 Greyhound (2020) · ★ 7.4 · 3,472 votes · 1h 32m · action, drama, war
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover pr…
#14 Sisu (2022) · ★ 7.4 · 2,970 votes · 1h 31m · action, adventure, thriller
When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.…
#15 Justice Society: World War II (2021) · ★ 7.4 · 608 votes · 1h 24m · science-fiction, animation, war
When the Flash finds himself dropped into the middle of World War II, he joins forces with Wonder Woman and her top-secret team known as the Justice Society of America.…
#16 Land of Bad (2024) · ★ 7.3 · 1,583 votes · 1h 53m · action, thriller, war
When a Delta Force special ops mission goes terribly wrong, Air Force drone pilot Reaper has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved into a wild rescue operation. With no weapons and…
#17 Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) · ★ 7.3 · 918 votes · 1h 29m · action, thriller, war
Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, "the man who refuses to die" dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somew…
#18 The Last Full Measure (2020) · ★ 7.3 · 506 votes · 1h 50m · action, drama, war
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon st…
#19 Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) · ★ 7.2 · 1,224 votes · 1h 52m · thriller, drama, crime
After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.…
#20 The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023) · ★ 7.2 · 882 votes · 1h 51m · action, adventure, war
In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.…
#21 Warfare (2025) · ★ 7.1 · 1,641 votes · 1h 35m · action, war
A platoon of Navy SEALs embarks on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.…
#22 Devotion (2022) · ★ 7.1 · 848 votes · 2h 19m · action, drama, history
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.…
#23 The Forgotten Battle (2021) · ★ 7.1 · 804 votes · 2h 6m · action, adventure, drama
During WWII's crucial Battle of the Scheldt, the lives of a glider pilot, a Nazi soldier and a reluctant Resistance recruit tragically intersect.…
#24 Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023) · ★ 7.1 · 506 votes · 2h 28m · action, fantasy, war
Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars betw…
#25 The Zone of Interest (2023) · ★ 7.0 · 2,742 votes · 1h 45m · drama, history, war
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.…
#26 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) · ★ 7.0 · 2,072 votes · 2h 0m · action, comedy, drama
During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission against the Nazi forces behind enemy lines... A true story about a secret British…
#27 Lee (2024) · ★ 7.0 · 693 votes · 1h 57m · drama, history, war
The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.…
#28 Civil War (2024) · ★ 6.9 · 4,404 votes · 1h 49m · action, thriller, drama
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.…
#29 Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021) · ★ 6.9 · 2,804 votes · 1h 50m · action, adventure, thriller
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.…
#30 The Outpost (2020) · ★ 6.9 · 1,262 votes · 2h 3m · action, drama, history
A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming f…
#31 The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) · ★ 6.9 · 905 votes · 1h 45m · drama, war
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbe…
#32 Kandahar (2023) · ★ 6.8 · 1,320 votes · 1h 59m · action, thriller, war
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction p…
#33 Mad God (2021) · ★ 6.8 · 597 votes · 1h 24m · fantasy, horror, science-fiction
A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the u…
#34 One Shot (2021) · ★ 6.7 · 941 votes · 1h 37m · action, thriller, crime
An elite squad of Navy SEALs, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack while trying to rescue the same pri…
#35 Primitive War (2025) · ★ 6.6 · 555 votes · 2h 15m · action, horror, science-fiction
During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an…
#36 Operation Mincemeat (2022) · ★ 6.5 · 834 votes · 2h 8m · drama, history, war
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into beli…
#37 A House of Dynamite (2025) · ★ 6.4 · 1,386 votes · 1h 52m · thriller, drama, war
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.…
#38 Da 5 Bloods (2020) · ★ 6.4 · 1,196 votes · 2h 35m · drama, war
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle for…
#39 Napoleon (2023) · ★ 6.3 · 3,278 votes · 2h 38m · action, romance, drama
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship…
#40 Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023) · ★ 6.2 · 2,717 votes · 2h 14m · action, adventure, drama
When the ruthless forces of the Motherworld threaten a quiet farming village on a distant moon, a mysterious outsider becomes its best hope for survival.…

Questions

What is the best war movie of the 2020s?

There's Still Tomorrow (2023) tops the decade with 8.1/10 on TMDB, ahead of One Life (2023).